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KNOWING MUCH, BUSH DID LITTLE TO PROTECT AMERICA


Cheney 'deeply' Disturbed by Democratic Criticism of White House. Well, Dick Is Deeply Distubed. We'll Grant You That, We Don't Think the Godfather Intimidation Routine is Going to Work This Time Around. 5/17 IF YOU VALUE TODAY'S BUZZFLASH NEWS REPORTING, WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT. UNFORTUNATELY, IT COSTS MONEY TO COUNTERACT THE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS SPENT BY CORPORATE MEDIA AND THE RIGHT WING THINK TANKS. DONATE NOW. May 16th Statement of Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney on Terrorist Warnings 5/17 Dan Rather, Thank You, Just Thanks 5/17 BuzzFlash Alerts! Don't Miss A Thing! Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak says he warned the United States that "something would happen" 12 days before the Sept. 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington. 5/17 Bush's Little Secret 5/17 Ho Kurtz Says Press is Waking up after 9/11. Hmmm. How Many Months Ago Was That? 5/17 Another Karl Rove Love Note: Bush Suggests September 11th "Criticism" is Politically Motivated 5/17 Democrats led angry calls on Thursday for President Bush to hand over a top-secret CIA briefing and an FBI memo that warned of potential hijackings by Osama bin Laden 5/17 The SPECIAL May 16th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American --- The Bush 9/11 Edition SOME SEPTEMBER 11TH RELATIVES OF VICTIMS ARE FURIOUS WITH BUSH Grand Hypocrisy Party Won't Stop Selling Photo of Bush Running Like a Yellow Streak Away from D.C. on September 11th and Barely Saying a Word to a Nation in Crisis. Thinking of Saving His Own Butt First Makes Him a Hero to the GOP. 5/17 BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION: Connecting the Dots: Comprehension Level - Third Grade 5/16 Donn Marshall, whose wife, Shelley, died in the Pentagon attack, expressed bitterness at the revelations. "The notion that American planes might be hijacked — that should have caused more concern" 5/17 A Second Pearl Harbor? 5/17 A Newly Recaptioned Bush 911 Photo 5/16 Despite the statements that U.S. officials had no warnings of suicide attacks with airplanes, The Associated Press reported in March that Filipino police turned over just such a warning to the U.S. 5/17 The revelation that the White House was warned in August about a bin Laden hijacking plot -- and that Bush failed to disclose the warning -- shows an administration both incompetent and dishonest 5/17 The Lie Won't Stand 5/17 An Image of Invincibility is Shaken by Disclosures 5/17 Message to Boy George: Mullah Omar Says Osama bin Laden Still Alive 5/17 "Senate Majority leader Tom Daschle said on Thursday he was "gravely concerned" that the White House received a warning in August of a possible plot to hijack U.S. planes" 5/17 Homeland Security Languishes 5/17 Agent: Moussaoui 'could fly ... into the WTC' 5/17 FROM THE ARCHIVES: The Bush Administration was advised in August of 2001 that as many as 200 terrorists were coming to U.S. as part of plot FROM THE ARCHIVES: BUSH ADMINISTRATION TOLD U.S. AGENTS TO BACK OFF BIN LADENS 5/16 "Why did it take eight months for us to receive this information?" Daschle said. "I think the president should turn over the entire briefing that he was given to the Joint Bipartisan Intelligence Committee investigation today or tomorrow" 5/17 Buy "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" And Help Out Buzzflash.com Before Sept. 11, Unshared Clues and Unshaped Policy 5/17 FROM THE ARCHIVES: "President Bush personally asked Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle Tuesday to limit the congressional investigation into the events of September 11, congressional and White House sources told CNN." 5/17 9/11: Did Bush Do Enough? 5/17 Tourists Capture WTC Attack on Tape 5/17 Airlines Disagree with White House : "There was no warning offered to American, United or any other carrier that we are aware of," said American Airlines spokeswoman Mary Frances Fagan. "We had no notification regarding hijackers last summer." 5/17 FROM THE BUZZFLASH ARCHIVES: The "Shallow Throat" Documents: A Pre-9/11 Bush&Co. Scenario 5/16 Moussaoui Won't Meet Psychiatrist 5/16 The War at Home: Federal Law Enforcement Officials Follow International Terrorism’s Money Trail from Northern Virginia to Saudi Arabia, but President Bush Says That’s Far Enough 5/16 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Hijackers Travel to and Within the United States 5/14 It's Back! Get Your Copy of "Fortunate Son" Support Independent News Sources! Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute. Get the Buzz! "Blinded By The Right" by David Brock And What About that Arizona FBI Memo (Read to End) 5/16 Senator: U.S. didn't connect 'dots' before 9/11 5/16 FROM THE ARCHIVES: Ashcroft Flying High: "Fishing rod in hand, Attorney General John Ashcroft left on a weekend trip to Missouri Thursday afternoon aboard a chartered government jet" NOW WE KNOW WHY! HE WAS WARNED! 5/16 BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: What Bush Could Have Done 5/16 Did the FBI Blow a Lead that Could Have Prevented September 11th? 5/16 Regulators Probed Enron Before Crash but Didn't Act 5/17 DAMAGE CONTROL FROM A WHITE HOUSE THAT WAS ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL BEFORE SEPTEMBER 11th. CAN WE COURT MARTIAL A PRESIDENT WHO IGNORED THE HIJACKING THREATS , RAN FROM WASHINGTON ON SEPTEMBER 11TH, AND THEN SELLS SOUVENIR PHOTOS OF HIS FLIGHT? 5/16	Incompetence in the White House: Bush Was Warned of a Bin Laden Plot. America Paid the Price. 5/16 Caught in a Lie 5/17 BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Bush Vacationed While They Planned 5/16 Airlines Report Only Hearing Vague Caution 5/17 FROM THE BUZZFLASH ARCHIVES: Investigate The Non-Evacuation of Booker Elementary School 5/16 BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: What Bush Knew In July, 2001 5/16 What Did They Know and When Did They Know It? From Make Them Accountable.com. 5/16 BUZZ INTO SPRING! GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! There are doubts concerning the FBI's insistence that it had no advance warning about the deadly 9-11 attack on the World Trade Center 5/16 Bowling for Columbine and Other Gun Guy News 5/17 Bush Personally Informed of Threat, But Did Not Alert the American Public (with a Code Red, Purple, Green, Magenta, Orange, Sky Blue, or Yellow for Yellow Streak) 5/16 FROM THE ARCHIVES: Newspaper: Echelon Gave Authorities Warning Of Attacks 5/16 Powdered Plutonium to Hit the Roads 5/17 ACLU Denounces Proposed Anti-Gay Constitutional Amendment That Would Deny Millions of American Families Their Fundamental Rights 5/17 "Why then does the Administration remain steadfast in its opposition to an investigation into the biggest terrorism attack upon our nation"? Now We Know. 5/16 Of Course It's About Oil, Duh? 5/17 Bush and Democrats at Odds in Secret HMO Talks 5/17 Afghan Battle Drags On 5/17 Yucca Won't Provide ENOUGH Storage Space, Says Energy Secretary 5/17 Enron linked to California blackouts:Traders said manipulation began energy crisis 5/17 GOP House Approves Welfare Plan for the 1800's 5/17 Ashcroft and NRA Provide Second Amendment Gun Defense for Accused American Taliban Terrorist John Walker Lindh 5/17 Bush Urges Senate Reject Steel Health Amendment 5/17 Like Low-Down Dogs Licking Their Vomit, Key Republicans Bring Up All Things Clinton When They are Cornered with the Truth (as in Bush Failed the Country in Regards to Sepbember 11th) 5/16 Was the British deployment in Afghanistan a PR stunt? 5/17 Laura's European Adventure. Jenna's Along With Her Too, No Doubt Because the Drinking Age in Europe is 18. 5/17 A Wider Atlantic: Europe Sees a Grotesque U.S. 5/17 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: I Hit the Trifecta 5/15 Fight Back Against the Bush 'Killer Astroturf' Assault on our Courts 5/17 BLOCKBUSTER: BUSH WAS WARNED OF TERRORIST ACTION, BUT DID VIRTUALLY NOTHING Noam Chomsky: Still contrary after all these years 5/17 Congress Eyes Reaction to Pre-Sept. 11 Warnings 5/16 Houston Police Balk at Tracking Immigrants 5/17 Congressman Dennis Kucinich loses his liberal papers on the issue of abortion 5/17 Accused Priest Apparently Kills Self 5/17 Bush Speaks with a Forked-Tongue on Cuba 5/17 Rep. Waxman asks Vice President Cheney to explain why the final task force report contains no discussion of California's energy problems. (needs adobe reader) 5/16 Phil Gramm Didn't Get His Dream Job. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs. 5/17 A SPECIAL COUNSEL SHOULD BE APPOINTED TO INVESTIGATE ENRON Massive Police Presence Planned for Bush Visit to Germany 5/17 Bravo, Jimmy Carter 5/17 Stolen Cyanide Truck Found Abandoned in Mexico, with Part of Cargo Missing 5/17 Vanessa Legget is Honored for Standing up for the First Amendment 5/17 Bush's Selective Taste for Dictators 5/17 Daniel Pearl's Body Appears to Have Been Found in Pakistan 5/17 Personal Bankruptcy Filings Up 15.2 Percent in 12-Month Period 5/17 A Minnesota tie to the ill-fated coup in Venezuela 5/17 Congressman Bernie Sanders (Congress's Only Independent Congressman) with a BuzzFlash Guest Contribution: The Export-import Bank: Corporate Welfare At Its Worst 5/17	Court Reverses Ruling on Anti-Abortion Website 5/17 Halliburton calls for law to curb asbestos claims 5/17 Bush appointee to join rights panel Friday 5/17 U.S. Initial Jobless Claims Rose to 418,000 Last Week 5/17 Bush Resisting U.S. Chemical Industry Over Global Toxics Treaty 5/17 Republicans Tout Tax Cuts, Democrats See Crisis 5/17 Jeb Bush campaign stop miffs school officials 5/17 More on Otto "Dr. Evil" Reich 5/17 Jeb, the Fabrication Governor, Will Say Anything 5/17 Was There an Anti-Semitic Riot at San Francisco State University? 5/17 The Danger of the Radical Right Wing that Controls the Supreme Court 5/16 FROM THE BUZZFLASH FLASH ARCHIVES: Call Them Cowardly Hypocrites 5/16 FOX News Wants to Indoctrinate College Campuses with Right Wing Coverage 5/17 America's Poor Standards, by Paul Krugman 5/17 The Bush administration plans to recommend that nine million acres of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska be opened for logging, mining and road building. 5/17 More Proof that the Democrats in the Senate -- and Any Decent Republicans Concerned About Their Country -- Need to Investigate Intelligence Agency Failures Now 5/15 Courts Roll Back Secrecy in "War on Terror" 5/16 BUSH'S FRIEND JERRY FALWELL IS A SCUMBAG, THAT'S ALL WE CAN SAY IN POLITE COMPANY 5/15 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Republicans Coming Out Against Lincoln 5/15 Grand Hypocrisy Party Raises Bucks Off of Septermber 11th. How Low Can You Get? By Maureen Dowd. 5/15 FBI CHIEF ADMITS WARNING OF POSSIBLE WTC-AIRPLANE ATTACK Democrats Decry Congressional GOP's Use of Bush 9-11 Photo for Fund-Raising; RNC Seeks $30M 5/15 The May 15th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.) Bush Puts up September 11th for Sale 5/17 *The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex* by Dr. Helen Caldicott BuzzFlash presents The Fifth Columnist: "Footnoting Major-Policy Changes" 5/13 A BuzzFlash Interview With U.S. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, Democrat and Progressive REPOSTED: BuzzFlash interviews David Brock, author of Blinded By The Right. BuzzFlash Interviews Dr. Helen Caldicott, Founder Of The Modern Antinuclear Movement Part Two of the BuzzFlash interview with Paul Begala, Famed Democratic Political Strategist and Co-author of Buck Up, Suck Up, and Come Back When You Foul Up. Part One of the BuzzFlash interviews Paul Begala, Famed Democratic Political Strategist and Co-author of Buck Up, Suck Up, and Come Back When You Foul Up. THE CAMPUS VOICE: "The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals returned a decision yesterday morning in favor of the Law School in Grutter v. Bollinger, stating race could be used as a factor in admissions," from The University of Michigan Daily 5/16 THE LIGHTER SIDE: Did Bush Connect the Dots? 5/17 Uncle Dick, Is It Safe to Come Home Now? 5/17 Has Bush Crossed the LIne? A BuzzFlash Eric Harrison Cartoon. 5/17 Everything's Up-To-Date in Havana City 5/16 Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony, head of the largest U.S. Roman Catholic archdiocese, has admitted keeping secret a case of child sexual abuse by a local priest, who then continued to molest children for another 14 years. 5/17 How Much For That President in the Window? 5/16 Peggy Noonan's Uncommon Sense 5/14 We Can Use This to Our Advantage 5/16 Ari's Credibility 5/17 History: The Subject American's Cannot Learn, by Tom Toles 5/15 Bush Wants Some Civics Education 5/15 That Quacking Sound You Hear is from Elizabeth Dole 5/17

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KNOWING MUCH, BUSH DID LITTLE TO PROTECT AMERICA